PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1514, 9 August 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Captain Shannon, Into A.D.C. to his hxoellency the Governor, lias been elected a life member of tho Wellington Acclimatisation Society.

ii ¥,P 011 - F - M - B < Wisher has received • ,™. 1 ? WIII B letter from Mr. W. Wason, ot Melbourne, secretary of tho People's Liberal party (the Victorian Liberal party):— I am desired by my executivo to convey to you their hearty congratulations upon your attainment of the important office of Minister for Customsand Marine in tho Government of New Zealand. My executive has many grateful recollections of tho magnificent services rendered by you in this Stato and Commonwealth during your visit here, in connection with tho recent anti-referenda campaign, and it is consequently with the greatest pleasure that they have learned of your having been called upon to fill so important an office in tho service of your country, and the duties connected with which your splendid talents will enable you to discharge with general satisfaction, Mr. John BaiTlie, who brought out the collection of paintings of modern British artists, has returned from tho south, after holding exhibitions in Christchurch and Duiiedin. 110 is to leave for a few (lays' holiday in Rotorun on Monday next, and on the following Monday will arrive in Auckland to mako arrangements for an exhibition there. He has made arrangements to kayo Wellington for London on September 13. Tho dinner to be tendered to the Hon. Thomas Mackenzie by the Chamber of Commerce is to bo held at tho Grand Hotel on Wednesday next. The Hon. W. F. Massey (Prime Minister) and Sir Joseph Ward will also be the guests of tho Chamber on that occasion. Sir Hobert Stout, Messrs. J. R. Blair, P. G. Ewingtou, (i. Fonwick, and W. Keece have been appointed official visitors to the prisons of tho Dominion. Mr. A. Linley, under whose management that quaint show, "Tiny Town," is coining. to New Zealand, left for the south last evening. The tour commences at Invcrcargill on August 19. Mr. P. J. Harrop has been appointed land transfer draughtsman in tho District Lauds and Survey Office in New Plymouth, rice Mr. John Cook. On account of illness, tho Rev. Father Kimboll, of Wellington, who arrived from Sydney on Wednesday by tho Maunganui, was not able to take up mission work in Australia as had been arranged. He was laid up' in a hospital in fiydnoy for a whilo, but is now a good deal better. Mr. Herbert Baillio. Public Librarian, is laid up with, a slight attack of pleurisy. Mr. A. C. Reid has beon appointed a Government surveyor of ships and examiner of engineers.